SO Busy!

I can’t believe how busy I am. I’m wondering if I’ll even have time for keeping a log!! I had been hoping to post something yesterday, but no use! I collapsed at 11:00 pm and headed straight for bed. Here’s a typical day in the life of Luisa (now that I’m not working!)

7:30 am – 9:00 am
Wake up, get kids up, ask dear husband whether he’s heard the alarm, wake kids up again, make kid’s lunches, grab breakfast, ask dear husband (yes, again) whether he’s heard the alarm, drive the kids to school. Meet with mom who asks me to type up a notice for an upcoming school event. Promise to get it to her tomorrow morning.

9:00 am – 10:00 am
Notice a big pile of grass roll discards dumped on the street near house and realize I could patch up the bare spots in the back yard lawn. Grab hoe, shovel, etc., and proceed to make a patchwork quilt out of back yard lawn. Stamp it all down with feet, put sprinkler on.

12:30 pm – 3:00 pm
Remember that sprinkler is on (oops) and turn it off. Grab lunch. Change into ripped up black tights with paint splatters, and micky mouse T-shirt and proceed to scrape at latex paint on the 6 (count ’em!) doorways. Get one doorway started yesterday done, and start on another. Realize that at this rate, I’ll be at it all month. Getting late, got to pick up kids, so vacuum up paint chips, change back into respectable clothes.

3:00 pm – 3:20 pm
Just enough time to run out to the local grocery store and get some groceries. Yes, I can do this in 20 minutes.

6:30 pm – 7:00 pm
Run out to car fix-it shop to pick up car, which had been in for tune-up/oil-change.

7:00 pm – 9:00 pm
Beg dear husband to give Ronnie a bath so I can work on notice for the upcoming school event. Beg dear husband for ideas on structure for notice, comes up with great ideas, which in the end are ingored (of course). Constantly interupted by kids. Can’t get much done.

9:00 pm – 10:00 pm
Kids finally in bed. Finally get to work on notice in earnest. Too tired to make it look very nice. Fiddle and fiddle with various aspects. Spend some time on phone with husband looking for cool fonts. (We have two phone lines. My office is on the 2nd floor, his is in basement. Also, laser printer is in the basement. Nice to be able to phone him after printing it off and asking how it looks. Don’t we have a cool life?)

10:00 pm – 11:00 pm
Exhausted, but refuse to go to bed, must unwind. Make my usual 10:00 pm coffee (decaf mocha java from Starbucks – yum) and settle down to watch a horrible Voyager rerun, which I do every night. I can’t quite remember the episode, I think I fell asleep on the couch. Finally drag myself to bed at 11:00.

So endeth a typical day. I think I need a sabbatical from my sabbatical. (Actually, I really enjoy working on the house! I must be mad.)